FALL UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! 🎃🍂

[Saga]

I think the Halloween items, pumpkin patches, and costumes look great! I love the fact that the villagers will dress up, too.

I am a little bummed thought because I was really hoping for a Nook's expansion, or Brewster, or more new furniture. Not all three, necessarily - just one other thing alongside Halloween. At this point, I'm starting to think we won't get a Nook's expansion or more daily-use furniture unless they do a Welcome Amiibo-type expansion in a couple years.

Anyways, I think the Halloween update looks fantastic for people who love the holiday, but I'm just not into the spooky aesthetic/Halloween in general. Still, I am extremely excited to see that they've paved the way for farming, and I'll be happy to see Jack return!

 

[Le Ham]

Side note, am glad I saved a large empty plain in case the farming turned out to be true! Be really cool to see if we eventually have the resources for year-round farming delight!

 

[Tentacles]

I'm so excited for this update! It's prolly my fave one so far. I can't wait to be blue.

 

[Crash]

i'm super excited for this! its way more halloween stuff than i was expecting, i'm very pleasantly surprised

also did anyone else see that amiibo cards are coming back to stores again?! i have them all already but i know lots of people have been debating buying the fake ones on etsy because real ones have gotten so expensive on ebay. i feel like (see also: HOPE) this also potentially means the new characters may get amiibo cards as well!

 

[Bluebellie]

Hoping the pumpkins give us the craftable pumpkin items, and that Jack gives us the creepy and spooky set. I really need the old coffins back.

 

[Jaco]

I just saw Abdallah's video analyzing the Fall Update trailer. At least 45 items just based on that!

 

[LittleMissPanda]

This is what I plan on doing: my sisterly villager, Agnes, has had a rather unimpressive garden of weeds because crops are not a thing (I suppose turnips count and you could make a turnip farm but it would have been amazing if instead Daisy Mae sold you turnip seeds and you can then grow them yourself) Btw you can clearly see how obsessed I am with Story of Seasons

Anyways, I'm getting off topic. I plan on replacing all the weeds in her little garden with, you guessed it, pumpkins. Carrie has her wildflower garden, Dom and I have our fruit orchard and now Agnes will have her very own pumpkin patch ala Stardew Valley

My biggest concern with this is if pumpkins can grow year-round or only in Fall? Like, imagine you build a farm of pumpkins, and you worked so hard on it and you love it so much, only for all the pumpkins to wither and die... I mean yeah that would be realistic but man will that suck

 

[Insulaire]

My biggest concern with this is if pumpkins can grow year-round or only in Fall? Like, imagine you build a farm of pumpkins, and you worked so hard on it and you love it so much, only for all the pumpkins to wither and die... I mean yeah that would be realistic but man will that suck

Pumpkin seeds will be sold year round by Leif after October, so they will not be disappearing

 

[QueenOpossum]

Pumpkin seeds will be sold year round by Leif after October, so they will not be disappearing

But Leif sells bushes that dont flower year round. Farming could be like that - you could have pumpkin starts, but they only flower and grow into pumpkins in the right season.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

Pumpkin seeds will be sold year round by Leif after October, so they will not be disappearing

With this update, Leif will have "uses" again as a visitor. Maybe they should consider improving others like Label and Wisp. They can use some help.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I have a place just for the pumpkins, which I have set up today. But the rest of the project has to be done tomorrow due to a villager's house being in the way.

 

[John Wick]

With this update, Leif will have "uses" again as a visitor. Maybe they should consider improving others like Label and Wisp. They can use some help.

Leif is one of the only NPC's that remains viable all year round, IMO.

I'm always swapping out bushes and needing more.
The rest of the visitors could be combined with the Able Sisters since it's all clothing.

Shove Gulliver and his travelling hat factory in with them too, since what he gives out are generic Able Sisters hats anyway.

 

[~Stitches~]

I really do hope we end up getting halloween furniture, that would be so cute. Im also happy were getting halloween decorations, halloween was gonna be the main theme of my island but ill probably just decorate it in a way that i can swap out each season's decor.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

Leif is one of the only NPC's that remains viable all year round, IMO.

I'm always swapping out bushes and needing more.
The rest of the visitors could be combined with the Able Sisters since it's all clothing.

Shove Gulliver and his travelling hat factory in with them too, since what he gives out are generic Able Sisters hats anyway.

Not for my case though. I only swap seasonal bushes which happens rarely. But that's it. I ignore the rest of his services and wares. I wish Gulliver only hands out famous buildings rather than those iconic hats.

 

[Biyaya]

But Leif sells bushes that dont flower year round. Farming could be like that - you could have pumpkin starts, but they only flower and grow into pumpkins in the right season.

That would make sense, but I wonder if it would be less season-oriented and more based on month? Southern hemisphere is in the spring time during Halloween, but I imagine this Halloween update isn't making pumpkin patches exclusive to the northern hemisphere during the holiday. It makes me suspect it's year-round, and I hope they are!

 

[Insulaire]

Y’all can breathe easy:

“Fully embracing the Autumn season, the long rumored growable vegetables feature found in datamining will be introduced to Animal Crossing: New Horizons with the ability to purchase Pumpkin seeds! These brand new seeds will be found at both Nook’s Cranny and from Leif when he visits your island.

Once planted in the ground on your island, pumpkins will need to be watered frequently to produce the best results! And once fully grown, you can harvest your pumpkins for use in a brand new collection of Pumpkin DIY Recipes.

Growing pumpkins won’t exclusive to the Halloween or Fall season though — you can grow them all year round! This new feature definitely seems to be paving the path for more vegetable seeds to be introduced in future updates.”

From this insider article with other info about next week’s update

 

[_Rainy_]

I’m excited for this update Halloween’s my favorite. Maybe because it’s in the same month as my birthday . The pumpkins look cute and I would love some more spooky decorations to put outside. I was disappointed when I figured out that you can’t put the spiderwebs outside.

 

[Rosch]

I've read that there will be 4 types of pumpkins. I think that's cool. Variety is always welcome. I thought that the ones on the trailer were simply different stages of growth. Guess not.

Also, happy about the ringcon item. Hopefully the Labo items will make it into the game next time.

 

[The.planets]

I have so many ideas for the new items! The new eye colors and skin colors are also cool, I plan on adding my character Dorun as they have pink eyes, aswell as a few new characters! (On a side note, if anyone knows of some mythical humanoid creatures with the new skin colors as their skin/fur/feathers/scales please private message me)
I'm a huge sucker for fall and spooky stuff as it's mainly accosiated with my fave colors, and I'm excited to see pretty aesthetic fall islands with pumpkin farms!

 

[michealsmells]

My ENTIRE town is getting revamped for Halloween. Sure it may be call a Utopia but in reality it's gonna be a SPOOKtopia of epic proportions. I have a lot of work to do to drain the color and happiness out of the town (only to most likely make it Christmas-y or even Nightmare Before Christmas-y for when Toy Day rolls around)

I just couldn't be more excited, man. Halloweeen is my aesthetic. I live and breathe Halloween every day of my life, especially the campy, almost cute black and orange colors with the ghosts and zombies and ghouls and witches. I'm gonna be playing this game waa-aa-aay more often now.